From a nice post-Katrina compilation-- "Sing Me Back Home: The New Orleans Social Club"-- to promote this great city.

Los Hombres Calientes

Digidall

This is Bill Summers & Irvin Mayfield-- Jason Marsalis already left the band when they made this album-- with help from Horacio "El Negro" Hernandez: "New Congo Square"

Subdudes

Make A Better World

Another from "Sing Me Back Home"

Jelly Roll Morton & his New Orleans Jazzmen

I thought I Heard Buddy Bolden Say

Recorded 1939 with Sidney Bechet on sax

Edgar Meyer w/ Bela Fleck & Mike Marshall

By the River

"Uncommon Ritual" (Sony Classical, 1997)

Edgar Meyer w/ Bela Fleck & Mike Marshall

Big Country

This one written by Bela Fleck

Porter Waggoner

Big River Train

Omni Records recently put out a CD with 24 cuts from two albums, both from 1967: "The Cold Hard Facts of Life/Soul of a Convict"

Paul Clayton

Long John Long Gone

Did Dylan really worship this guy? They traveled together in 1964, visiting Carl Sandburg up in the Blue Ridge Mountains. He recorded two albums for Monument around that time but ended his life in 1967

Odetta

No More Cane on the Brazos

A wonderful singer & a powerful presence, Odetta Holmes was born in Alabama in 1939 & died in NYC this past December

Mon. 1/12/09 3:23pm
north guinea hills:
(checks wiki), the irony, i bought his shirley collins collaboration, "folk roots, new routes" 2 days after he died.

(i remember this b/c i went record shopping the day after my gf went home for xmas, and she frowns upon me splurging on records)

p.s. thanks, Cecile.

Mon. 1/12/09 3:33pm
Cecile:
RODRIGO Y GABRIELA!

Mon. 1/12/09 3:34pm
Cecile:
they do a nice metallica cover, too.
R&G used to be a thrash metal band and would play that stuff acoustically for the tourists...

Mon. 1/12/09 3:35pm
Cecile:
correction, in a thrash metal band.
when the band broke up, they went acoustic.

Mon. 1/12/09 3:42pm
Al R:
Nice show, birthday buddy! I wish you all the best in the new year (let's be fine in aught aught nine!)

Mon. 1/12/09 3:46pm
north guinea hills:
my gf would hate most of this music. she from northern mexico, and hates most 'mexican' musics (she was already a big wfmu fan when i met her when she was still an undergrad in monterrey, nuevo leon).

she has a sort of a self-depreciation mexican complex

Mon. 1/12/09 3:47pm
north guinea hills:
however, the same could be said about me and my Southern heritage until moved to NYC.

Mon. 1/12/09 3:55pm
Jimmy Safechuck:
Flor de mal = flower of evil.

Mon. 1/12/09 4:00pm
Mac:
Nugent has not done a decent thing since this.

Mon. 1/12/09 4:03pm
Cecile:
this last band had a pretty fair guitar player, Whatever happened to him? ;)

Mon. 1/12/09 4:05pm
Jimmy Safechuck:
Muddy Waters was called Muddy Water back when he was still single.

Mon. 1/12/09 4:12pm
Cecile:
I think this is still Los Straitjackets.
they used to have a game on their site, and this was the background music.

Mon. 1/12/09 4:15pm
Cecile:
the casbah is a great live staple of the Straitjackets.

Mon. 1/12/09 4:17pm
north guinea hills:
los checkmates may be a faux latin band, but most of my gf's friend's bands from monterrey, mx speak and sink in perfect english. (they teach classes there at the universities in monterrey in english).

Mon. 1/12/09 4:19pm
Richard D:
Pinetop Perkins be the MAN

Mon. 1/12/09 4:22pm
Cecile:
ngh, most of the world can speak and think better in English than I can.